Franklin Mint making a Deuce from a car I shot in Daytona?!

http://www.franklinmint.com/product1.aspx?SID=2&Product_ID=8928
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I hope this guy got paid for their model of his car-bad ass ride btw!

 

Pretty cool model, too bad it's $105. Heck of an advertisement for the guys shop eh?

 

bruce was not asked, nor was he paid.
dan

 

oooooh, sounds like money to be made thru litigation.

 

whoops. see below

 

I take it he's seen the car before. I love HIS car. I took 10 shots of it (in a field of 7k cars, that's a lot of shots, folks)

 

I don't think there's much he can do. They changed it from Bruce's Rods & Customs to Ben's

 

Company's do that all the time...and if they change a certain "design" by only 10%, it's all legal...

R-

 

looks like they chopped it too.

 

you shot a duece! im glad no one was hurt

 

Wow, they didn't even fawk it up with a pro stock hoodscoop from 1993.

That dude should start posting the ripoff on every internet forum, and start writing letters to the editor for every car mag in existence. Avoiding further bad publicity might encourage the mint to do something nice for him.

 

Those look like radials on the model version. Bad move. -10 points

 

The model is chopped.

 

But it has a flathead....+20 points

 

Other thant the door art and the E&J's, it's just another "rat rod" diecast. Put some Guides on it and sand off the door and I doubt anyone would say it's a rip off.

It's chopped, it's brown, and it has a flathead in it. And it's also way out of proportion.

I wish people could look at something like this and say "hey, thats cool, they liked my car" instead of "hey, those assholes ripped me off."

 

I bet if you turn the model over, it says licensed by Ford Motor Company. I would think that should do it.

 

i would not use a rat rod to show off my rod shop , anybody can put rust on the road,just buy a old car and put a battery in it

 

"This red-hot "Rat" Rod was built to burn rubber and set the custom world on fire."

Awesome Corporate description!

 

bruce never said anyone ripped him off.
dan

 

Based on this thread so far, I don't think Bruce has said anything. It's others on here who are calling for lawsuits and uproar. If someone made a model of my car I'd laugh at em for making somehting so ugly into a mass produced model.

 

Thats what I guess I meant to say.
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"I wish people could look at something like this and say "hey, thats cool, they liked that car" instead of "hey, those assholes ripped that guy off."

 

Ya, if he gets some cash form the gig, cool. If not, buy a few to remember how cool the Franklin Mint thought your car was.

 

....yeah, then Ford could sue Bruce for using the V-8 logo....

You guys are funny.

 

Hey, and its 'steel' not plastic.........